Seven Days Ashore (1944)

Wally Brown: Monty Stephens

Quotes 

• Monty Stephens : [to the Bosun's Mate]  There's three things that worry me, Chief, ever since we had to drop out of the convoy. Where are we, where we're headed, and do you think we'll make it?

  Orval 'Handsome' Martin : Yeah, and will the beer be cold when we get there?

• Orval 'Handsome' Martin : There's certainly a lot of stupid people in this world.

  Monty Stephens : You can say that again!

  Orval 'Handsome' Martin : There's certainly a lot od stupid people in this world.

• Orval 'Handsome' Martin : [Playing solitaire]  Seven more months on this paddle boat and I'll be talking to myself!

  Monty Stephens : Well, don't listen, or you'll be bored.

• Dan Arland Jr. : The sun comes up, the sun goes down. Inbetween, nothing. We don't even know where we're going.

  Monty Stephens : I know where I wish we were going. Right back to that blonde in Melbourne.

• Monty Stephens : I get a feelin' we'll end up in New Guinea.

  Dan Arland Jr. : Yeah, that'd be a fine place to spend a leave. Jungles, swamps, mud...

  Monty Stephens : Faucet hose with hot and cold running malaria, mosquitos, 140 in the shade, no shade, and no *dames*. Only crocodiles.

• Orval 'Handsome' Martin : All my life I've wanted to kiss a - lady bass horn player.

  Monty Stephens : Boy, give me a saxophone. It's got more range.

• Monty Stephens : Look, I wanna talk to Dan Arland. There's two dames down here all set to tear him apart.

• Monty Stephens : I'm gonna just sit over here awhile and brood over the girl that left me behind.

  Orval 'Handsome' Martin : Yeah, I should have stood on board ship with my pinup girls.

• Dan Arland Jr. : You're my pals, aren't you?

  Monty Stephens : Well, recklessly speaking, yes.

  Orval 'Handsome' Martin : Now, I bet I don't even get a lady bugler.

• Orval 'Handsome' Martin : [on the phone]  $500, 000? Look Hoskins, How many times have I told to not to bother me with truffles, eh, trifles. Certainly buy it! What do you think I pay you 5,000 a week for?

  [hangs up phone, to Carol and Lucy] 

  Orval 'Handsome' Martin : That was my breaker.

  Monty Stephens : Broker.

  Orval 'Handsome' Martin : Broker.

• Monty Stephens : What do you suggest, Dan? Gee, I don't wanna lose Carol.

  Dan Arland Jr. : Get them hooked solid, then they'll forgive your deception. You've got to romance them a little more. More moonlight, more fun. Laughter, love!

• Monty Stephens : If cupid shoots you in the pants with an arrow, what have you got?

  Orval 'Handsome' Martin : Tail feathers?